At this year’s edition of WOMEX Crammed Discs walked away with 2 of the 3 prizes awarded during the closing ceremony, on Nov. 1st in Copenhague.
The Artist Award 2009 has been granted to awesome Congolese band STAFF BENDA BILILI, who are currently starting their first European tour, which promises to be nothing short of triumphal considering the passion generated by the band’s mesmerizing music and by their extraordinary story.
Staff Benda Bilili were discovered and recorded in Kinshasa by CRAMMED DISCS, whose excellence and boundary-breaking role will be once again distinguished at WOMEX: after receiving the Womex Award in 2004, Crammed Discs will be receiving the Top Label Award 2009, jointly granted by WOMEX and World Music Charts Europe (the organism which compiles airplay charts for the European Broadcasting Union, on the basis of returns from over 50 radio broadcasters from 25 countries). Crammed Discs comes first in the year-round 2009 chart, at the top of a list which includes no less than 540 labels!
